the team statistics on how the number of deaths caused by qwest roberts writes this as the future of the drone program is revealed. we'll talk all things and uab yet and there's a new man in charge of new york city. but the mayor bill campbell on seo keep the current controversial stop and frisk program in place are really make major changes with out a report from the big apple coming up. candle for you ship your receipt that new digital package. purely an

essay might be getting the mail before you do. plus in protecting your e mail might become a bit more challenging now that the nsa is racing to state three steps ahead of you. by building a quantum computer that's later in the shower. i am. yet scribe in january thirty five pm in washington dc and the mob has and your watching artsy only begin this hour with a closer look us drone program effectiveness and its future to estimates released by the pier on investigative journalism the long war journal lee and the new america foundation are shedding light on just how it stands at the unmanned aerial vehicle strikes have been since two thousand channel in all there been a total of four hundred sixty one strikes in pakistan yemen and somalia resulting in some three thousand five hundred twenty depths of the people killed four hundred fifty seven or oh eleven per cent

were civilians. meanwhile the defense department released its annual report on the use of on an assist on this. the chorale down a road map through twenty thirty eight of how the lady program will continue to develop take a look at this church this is an inventory of the total number of unmanned aircrafts the department of defense currently has in its possession. and those are just the flying ones. and yet he also has thousands of ground and merit and sis down this agency estimates it will spend four point one billion dollars on onion systems and twenty fourteen and a thirty percent drop from twenty thirteen but still quite a bit of money. i spoke earlier with abraham wagner and los angeles he is an adjunct professor at columbia university's school of international and affairs and also with mary helen o'connell she is a professor of mining research professor of international dispute resolution at the croft institute for peace studies at the university of notre time i began asking mary ellen was so fun about these

numbers. well i'm very critical of this news that isn't being released by the council on foreign relations. it is simply misleading that their only been eleven percent of all persons killed. designated as civilians. this is simply incorrect. the only place where i go for statistics and i am one of the experts when the people isn't tracking and looking into killings by drums since the very first one and a man outside a combat zone in two thousand and two when i am a professor of international law. in my studies i only look at the bureau investigative journalism and i look at their low but also their high numbers and the bureau reports total numbers of four thousand one hundred percent skill that's the statistically should be looking at and even more importantly we should focus as americans on the number of two hundred and six two hundred and six. that is the high number of children we may have killed those are the relevant statistics and they should be reinforcing

the americans' views that drone killings outside official recognize the gold combat zones should come to an end to the real thing about those numbers and other military would probably say that eleven percent of civilian casualties is relatively while we look at the effectiveness of these programs overall that is is that your sense of that. no it really isn't i think that the number of casualties given the situation. harper lee love the eleven percent had a rift mary it's hard to you know pick any particular source and say this number is writer that number is right even if we accept the four thousand number as a reasonable estimate. and we look at the eleven percent number in se coast report from the council for all ages that you know it's a never give numbers the number of civilian deaths for example if we look at the door for the past four years in pakistan were talking in

the one to three percent range. if we're looking at the mn. the numbers are in much higher in the fourteen percent range. but the war kerry is not sanitary there really is no such thing as surgical strikes and anytime you're engaged in warfare there's going to be collateral damage and is highly unfortunate that the collateral damage often involves civilians women and children. but that's the nature of warfare and the nature of warfare. these days as we've seen post nine eleven is not the same height before prayer we faced in decades prior. they are not declared wars are not necessarily an official war is an indian on the law professor is well a columbia also at ucla and when we teach to go along for the store and things were teaching are all wars were in a new environment then the new regime. mount miriam on you kind of touched on it

before but one of the problems that is the classification of what exactly a militant it's not defined as all military age males are in a strike zone regardless of whether or not they participated in combat activity is could the civilian death toll be even higher than the us made or the nist report estimates given and that classification well i have to disagree with abraham when he said that when a new kind of warfare and therefore the way we classify people has to change under international law the definitions in the geneva conventions and additional protocols the definition of who was a civilian and who is a combatant who may lawfully be killed in combat who may not lawfully intensely be killed in combat has not changed and the united states is fully on board when the definitions under international law and under those definitions there are few if any of the people that the united states has killed any aim and pakistan and somalia who are legally

defined as combatants and those are the only people we may intentionally killed abraham is talking about the dirty mess of war and clatter of damage but outside of an armed conflict sound were talking bout him in pakistan and somalia. none of those persons should of been killed under armed conflict rules state and perhaps could be killed in the attempt to arrest and resisting arrest and or peacetime long for spring rolls but we look we haven't been invited to do any of that kind of a rest in any of these countries. so let's be clear under international law which is the law that binds united states in all countries resorting to military force four thousand people killed is an unacceptable on lawful and reprehensible number and it should and had a brandy on a response that. i don't agree. are we selectively decided to ignore international law. these definitions since nine eleven when it suits her. our desire to do so are the kinds of definitions that are

contained in those conventions are antiquated the people that took out thirty some are civilians in the last couples of days in russia were not following these rules of the activities we've been engaged in post nine eleven don't necessarily follow these rules than these definitions. i probably agree with. the cough up for election for it and probably for a loan that these definitions are in fact antiquated you're not going to find the people that seek to do us harm. that seek to kill americans. qualifying under antiquated definitions and as the cause of some of these days the definitions need to be modernized and change. this is not the nature of foreign policy today we made the decision as a nation. following nine eleven in something called the bush doctrine. now to go after terrorists who seek to do was evil and those who support them or ever they may be we haven't changed that doctrine and continue to

operate under that so long as we do that the definitions don't report the doctor and had a brand the doctor neighbor of the doctrine of abraham is talking about is he unilaterally impose a political view of the bush administration. this is not what president obama was talking about in may of this year twenty third last year twenty thirteen when he said the united states would comply with international law he did not say that these were antiquated rules. his lawyers and he tried it too i shoved what they were doing and to be accepted current rules of international law they didn't talk about antiquated rules so i'm afraid abrahams. view about the united states commission on international was incorrect. we have not sought to change the rules and just thought id on it to two days analysis of the actual facts of what united states is doing that so i assume why there's so little official us commentary

on high to justify under international law these killings. wendy murray resigned and mary ahmadi jump in activity on monday i am seeing report says it is reducing the amount of money it spends on time and technology in the open sign in your opinion. i think it's a bad side of the one thing i think most people will agree on as the unmanned vehicles or drones and i guess the new term of that the defense department is calling in on piloted aircraft. these things save lives and they save money. one of the great numbers which we no need to focus on is that since we started military operations in the tribal areas places like waziristan which are horribly inhospitable weekend was absolutely no american lives and their prey. we now know of it. i want for our apt for unfair and had to catch up there abraham were just out of time is a wonderful discussion when any nice to continue airing on

o'connell a professor of law at the university of notre dame in new york and abraham wagner and a professor at columbia university in los angeles. on new york's of interest program in a number of robots this past year first in the high profile trial over the legality of the practice. the allegations of abuse by individual police officers with the end of michael bloomberg's reign as mayor in the dam built in one seo is what is the future city and with a stop and frisk program. for more and then return to rt correspondent on the stock feature. the nypd stop and frisk policy reached the peak of its criticism and controversy during twelve years under mayor bloomberg the os stopping interrogating and searching of new yorkers on the streets overwhelmingly in communities of color without warrants and often under flimsy pretend says that hundreds of thousands of stops we needed each year human rights groups and advocates have dubbed the policy of greece is immoral and illegal discriminatory and in violation of civil and

privacy rights fall whereas officials have been saying that it actually helps prevent crime groups like the american civil liberties union of insane backside in nine out of ten cases people were found to be completely innocent. even though cording to the nypd is official records now a new city has the new york as the new mayor and build a block deal for throughout his election campaign promised to alter this policy and dump went in and see you on the ear of discrimination and has now appointed a new police commissioner who write up about promised to bring about change and return trust you on communities in that they are in communication and data being out together and walking hand in hand with the nypd on a daily basis however despite these promises the irony here is that of new york's new top cop is also known to be one of the initial performance of the original form of the times the controversial practice because when he was first police commissioner

back in the nineties under mayor giuliani he did in force of more aggressive tactics in the police force which shot led to bring down crime but also reading stop and frisk so many community leaders and groups here in new york and in voicing their concern and criticism because of this nomination they are saying they can't trust a man who was not known from the brink of policy fighter to hide it in previous years and that certainly they're saying they want a man to whom on the job of altering this controversial stop and the pharmacy to be someone who represents change and not just the continuation of the house so the question now is whether the new commissioner will be the bright all wrong man for the job but also when the politicians' promises can actually be turned into a real option of change was that when the weather many new yorkers can begin to trust their police force again after decades of using him as the leading a practice

that has been dubbed unconstitutional by critics as a church in an artsy feel also coming out of new york this week actually is based journalist who was covering the arctic on wall street and for street protests back in two thousand twelve has filed a lawsuit against new york city the nypd and ten individual police officers the fire claims he was detained and beaten searched and arrested. how probable cause that even after he repeatedly identified himself as a journalist. thirty four year old chris brown was writing for the boston phoenix at the time of his arrest charges of disorderly conduct were eventually dismissed. brown says he was functioning within his rights as a journalist to photograph observed and investigate the seventh of september seventeen demonstration police officers disagreed when you use explosives and derogatory wind which was now seeking unspecified damages and court dates and sixty six as to announce the latest information coming out about

the national security agency just moments ago we learned that the foreign intelligence surveillance court finds a court approved the obama administration's application to renew the full collection of telephone data data for another ninety days. this will give the administration time to consider those recommendations that were made by l white house appointed panel on health reform at the nsa. this is the first turn you on since the court rulings were handed down of two conflicting judge is dealing with the constitutionality of this collection program. also out today in the justice department filed an appeal against u s district court judge richard leon was rolling and phone records might be likely unconstitutional. appointing them anyway. another development this week on thursday we learned that the nsa is well on its way to developing a quantum a supercomputer is incredibly intricate system has eluded researchers for years due to its complexity and its fragility. the nsa six seats a work in quantum computer

when i opened the door to easily breaking the strongest impression tolls in use today including a standard known as rsa. meaning you can kiss your digital privacy in fine form guide at the county manager to take to protect yourself. now the combination of this program like that like this is still likely at least five years off that we now love it but that's not the only computer you should be worried about the other one is your all. according to a new der spiegel report the division of the nsa is intercepting computers and other electronics on their shipping routes. many now for the packages are delivered an essay agents load malware or backdoor access onto the technology. the whole process is called the intersection. earlier i spoke with our team but producer andrew blake and political commentator sam cents. i first asked youtube to explain how this program works. just deal with the support of days ago and we've only really see what's in that report now keep in

mind that only a handful people have access to on the class but honestly doubt that it was a stop to talk about and security researcher named kept on jacob appel bomb present it in on hamburg germany last week actually in conjunction with the deer spiegel article. the minute you to shine a little bit more light on this on interdiction program and will do now and is limited right now but the knows at least is that when the nsa has a particular target on whether it's the forest a rival agency or malicious hackers uncertainty now international carmel to try to track down we can be no ideally monitoring their sort of internet transactions and if the person say according to apple on order something off of amazon dot com pianist is able to intercept that it was diverted to a site location and then. literally just three decided to share an ad on the sad fact or is that all sorts of different things some terrible terrible things to the company's name and now i'm a participating in the so so far almost all the companies that were named by either missed out on

the floor and a gifted article have issued statements either dismissing the notion that they help the nsa earl singapore idol they had never even heard of this on me and one cup these particular that the mention of his presentation was on the dell computers there's a number of hardware pieces servers are manufactured by del haven't for years called the power rack servers and the pm est on the advertiser's among its employees said it has on the program's second when it literally does happen right in to those of the pieces of the machinery. also the nsa advertises that it has a one hundred percent success rate when used to target the apple ils to buy or sell. i know one thing he bought after his speech was well. because the nsa have a one hundred percent accuracy how when it comes to this because they pretty much know all the other direct cooperation there. that's something that apple is you are the right to deny a million hits. there's a whole lot of questions are

brought up about it including that the american companies in the nsa and i don't really know the full answer for awhile the unions are a way for us now with this is happening to us or to our computers and i mean i don't think you personally appeared in kerala. traveling in a crate of breaking your computer. but if you buy something from dallas to buy something from western digital to buy something by samsung if you buy on something by cisco these are all companies where the tennessee hands on a list of vulnerabilities in those products so that his computer named apple. if you have an i phone the nsa knows how to break it. are they going to freaking your i phone. i know i hope not but they know how i use a juicer a tech companies is earl shipping companies to ups and fedex who are the ones redirecting these packages they were rich whether or not they knew about these programs or whether they were cooperate year participating and they said we were cooperate year participating but they didn't say whether they knew about the programs around in some interesting points and nine over a month senator bernie

sanders wrote to add to the nsa director keith alexander key this quote how the nsa spying or is the nsa currently spying on members of congress or other american elected officials seem to expect. alexander to answer that question honestly given its track record and it's on the disclosures that we've seen so far from the nsa will this has a pretty tricky with top members of congress will say something in and letters in the end. mayor ron wyden announced it would take like the cell site location data and the nsa writes back and we're not currently doing a give way when it should be classified a tandem for another answer to that question. this is a pretty simple question yes they are spine because of sen sanders whose own letter to say by spying on me. are you collecting headed out on a personal phone calls. yes their spy on everybody there collecting on everyone's mad about it in the united states pretty much soaked. that's a pretty easy way that the opportunity to respond to that held the same york times and guardian published calling for clemency fredericks noted yesterday

elected officials in the u s policy in the one shown any support or if there's been a few members who tweeted out some support of congressman alan grayson as congressman jim mcgovern congressman peter welch really with a cell researcher leo is now full throat for clemency a lot of other members of congress when it says some release espionage act charges dropped everything like that what ultimately started in what they could do but once you're on what has been saying for years that the american will be horrified that the nsa knew what they were doing but he took his oath that more seriously a gesture was unwilling to expose constitutional violations like edward started was an angelina thirty seconds when i have been york times calling far at the outpost oden and chelsea manning's that have pardoned. well i don't think in your hands is gone as far as to call for pardon for kelsey manning at which is on the sad thing is how even as recently as last month's mainstream established media have been citing diplomatic cables and

and wore lots released by private manning on those information are still his brain still use on a regular basis and you cannot ask for clemency for snow and announcing i should also ask for manning. rit our team lead producer andrew blake and political commentator sands accents are working that. given the commission president obama to use the power of clemency to reduce the sentences of eight people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses before the new year. ali prisoners were convicted of possessing crack cocaine and eve amounted to serve more than fifteen years in prison so i wondered if the princess and the specific eight people while the obama administration has attempted to address what if teens is an unfair prison system the fair sentencing act narrow the disparity in sentences for crack and cocaine offense is if they're non violence. nevertheless prison populations have risen five percent the past three decades our teens that was walter and sophomore. both nights. president obama is feeling more generous than

this new year. late december the president commuted sentence as of eight inmates the crimes they were convicted of four non violent crack cocaine offenses. they were sentenced under harsh mandatory minimum lines. some of them. the flight behind bars but all of them served at least eighteen years of their sentences and a rare show of mercy president obama said quote commuting the sentence isn't easy in america and is an important step toward restoring fundamental ideals of justice and fairness it must not be the last. advocates for a form hoping testing the dna can say that you're in sentence is barely make a dent in fixing an unjust system that resulted from the so called warrant or august. in fact they're in estimated eight thousand people currently doing time that would be free of sentence under current laws in august attorney general eric holder knowledge that the system is flawed and needs to change. we must face the reality that as it stands

for system is in too many ways. broken. cos we are on is far from sustainable. and it is our time. it is our duty to identify those areas that we can improve in order to better advance the cause of justice for all americans the reality is referred to him and jails and prisons across the country are jam packed with nonviolent drug offenders like this one that i recently visited in chicago critics of policies enacted in the war on drugs say they do little to deter drug use result in profound racial disparities in a raster its angle and a livelihood in future for inmates and their families while taxpayers foot the bill for an unsustainable system. it's a deep psychological and economic impact on a private number of people. it's not just the person who goes to prison were affected and as a country adding we are paying for so many people to be on welfare that he use to be

supported by the prisoners and prison sentences for ripple affect the cost is not only contest with a person but then to take an accounting is left behind clemency for drug offences is rare but perhaps the president's commutation during the holiday season and added new chapter for the war on drugs in twenty fourteen in washington as well. rte the rental we are just another month away from the twenty fourteen winter olympic games taking place in sochi. western officials and the amount that staff are making their final preparations before they head off to russia to participate in the game is sure to look behind the scenes at some of the things there are two doing some tea before the games began. rt is to bomb not say. you want to take the day thousands of kilometers from all causes of the day and not human psyche the twenty oh two was leaking

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